Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

Sunday, 19 October REGISTRATION 18:00 Palmira Beach Hotel "A word in your ear(stone)" ICEBREAKER 19:00 Monday, 20 October

REGISTRATION 8:30 Casal saloon

SYMPOSIUM OPENING 9:30 Auditorium IA_Vasconcelos_Key Keynote Theme I: 10:00 Auditorium (A. Geffen speaker Environmental indicators presentation) Coffee Break & Burn 10:45 Poster Room Moderators MORNING PLENARY SESSION IA 10:00 - 13:10 Auditorium S. Campana, F. Cerna Protolithe: protoscape and fish odyssey 11:15 IA_Daverat_00 Using fish ear bones as proxies for tracing changes in climate 11:30 IA_Gillanders_01 Investigating the bomb radiocarbon flux in the southern 11:50 IA_Grammer_02 Pacific Ocean with otolith radiocarbon Virtual beam shaping femtosecond laser ablation: a new tool 12:10 IA_Pecheyran_03 for sensitive high spatial resolution otolith microchemistry. Natural habitat contributes more to an estuarine fish production than artificial habitat does: variability in growth 12:30 IA_Shoji_04 and mortality rates of larval and juvenile temperate bass cohorts estimated from otolith microstructures Do variations in the elemental concentrations in otoliths of 12:50 IA_Trueman_05 marine fishes really track variations in water chemistry? Lunch lapilli 13:10 Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IB 14:30 - 16:10 Auditorium R. Vasconcelos, I. Catalan Shades of Sophie Dove? The potential of eye lens chemistry as a complementary archive of environmentally relevant 14:30 IB_Limburg_01 information Stable isotopic records of otoliths in detecting climate-related 14:50 IB_Gao_02 regime shifts and the effects of ocean acidification Ongoing ageing of a habitat-forming depsea coral Solenosmilia variabilis – information to assess recovery potential from 15:10 IB_Tracey_03 anthropogenic impacts Effects of ocean acidification on otolith growth and size- 15:30 IB_Clemmesen_04 selective mortality of larval Atlantic cod and Atlantic herring Detecting interannual shifts in otolith microchemistry before, 15:50 IB_Granneman_05 during, and after the Deeåwater Horizon oil spill Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IC 14:30 - 16:10 Seminar Room A. Andrews, P. Grønkjær A stitch in time: using chemical chronologies from otoliths to 14:30 IC_Swearer_01 reconstruct larval dispersal environments Otolith-derived estimates of marine temperature use by West 14:50 IC_Power_02 Greenland Atlantic (Salmo salar) Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

A 200 year archeozoological analysis of Pacific cod life history as revealed through Ion Microprobe oxygen isotope ratios in 15:10 IC_Helser_03 otoliths Alaskan lake trout biochronologies as long-term indicators of 15:30 IC_Wilhelm_04 climate and productivity Insights into historical New Zealand marine shelf productivity 15:50 IC_Neil_05 using ancient fish otoliths Coffee Increments 16:10 Poster Room Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IB 16:40 – 18:00 Auditorium B. Gillanders, H.de Pontual An investigation of connectivity among estuarine tapertail anchovies Coilia nasus from the Yangtze River, Yellow Sea and 16:40 IB_Yang_06 Poyang Lake Extracting environmental histories from sclerochronological structures - Recursive partitioning as a mean to explore 17:00 IB_Vignon_07 multielemental composition of fish otolith Relative contribution of estuarine nursery areas to the adult population of the temperate seabass Lateolabrax japonicus in 17:20 IB_Yamashita_08 Tango Bay, as revealed by otolith Sr:Ca ratios Near-reef elemental signals in the otoliths of Pomacentrus 17:40 IB_Sih_09 amboinensis (Pomacentridae) Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IC 16:40 – 18:00 Seminar Room D. Tracey, C. Trueman Contrasting environmental drivers of adult and juvenile 16:40 IC_Ong_06 growth in a marine fish Examining the interactions of growth, climate and recruitment of boarfish (Capros aper) for a better understanding of the 17:00 IC_Davies Coad _07 recent population expansion Broad and local scale drivers of growth of an estuarine fish 17:20 IC_Doubleday_08 species and implications for climate change Comparison of Slimy (Cottus cognatus) annual growth in contrasting regulated and unregulated riverine 17:40 IC_Kelly_09 environments OTOCHUKI ID 18:15 - 19:15 Auditorium Moderator A. Geffen Migrating Atlantic cod otoliths reflect movement through water masses: linking data storage tag data with high 18:15 ID_Neville_01 resolution trace element and isotope geochemical signatures Settlement variability of Mullus surmuletus by means of 18:20 ID_Matteo_03 otolith sclerochronology Growth of King George whiting: an investigation of climatic 18:25 ID_Mazloumi_05 influences on otolith growth Otolith chemistry discriminates water mass occupancy of 18:30 ID_Norcross_06 Arctic fishes in the Chukchi Sea Otolith biochronologies and the present, past, and future of 18:35 ID_Black_07 the California Current upwelling system Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

Life-history connectivity and climate-related change in distribution of red hake (Urophycis chuss) on the northeast 18:40 ID_Robillard_08 United States continental shelf. Temperature and oxygen isotope variability of North Sea Basin 18:45 ID_Vanhove_09 shelf waters during the early Eocene, recorded by fish otoliths Does Ba:Ca and Sr:Ca ratios always reflect ambient water 18:50 ID_Bareille_10 composition where Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) inhabits? Comments on the microstructure of vertebrae, and estimates ID_Montealegre- of age and growth of the blue shark, Prionace glauca (l., 1758), 18:55 Quijano_12 in the southwest Atlantic Tuesday, 21 October Moderators MORNING PLENARY SESSION IIA 9:00 - 12:35 Auditorium Y. Yamashita, B. Walther IIA_Nolf_Key Keynote Theme II: Community indicators 9:00 Auditorium (A. Lombarte speaker presentation) What do we know about otolith function in hearing? – Insights 9:45 IIA_Schulz-Mirbach_01 from cichlids and livebearing fish Stable carbon isotopes in marine fishes otoliths 10:05 IIA_Shores_02 Eleven years of the interactive AFORO (Shape analysis of 10:25 IIA_Lombarte_03 otoliths) database web site (2003/2014) Coffee check 10:45 Poster Room Multi-decadal biochronologies indicate species-specific 11:15 IIA_Izzo_04 responses to environmental change A 100-year assessment of biological change in SE Australian 11:35 IIA_Morrongiello_05 waters: novel insight using fish otoliths Prey composition analysis using otolith morphology: a case study of bigeye tuna Thunnus obesus in the western Indian 11:55 IIA_Chang_06 Ocean The use of otoliths to examine trophic interactions between California sea lions and artisanal fisheries on the west coast of 12:15 IIA_Tobar _07 the Baja California peninsula Lunch lobes 12:35 Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IIB 14:00 - 15:40 Auditorium D. Nolf, J. Panfili May otolith morphology be used for measuring biodiversity of 14:00 IIB_Tuset_01 marine fish assemblages? Inter-population differences in otolith morphology are genetically encoded in Aphanius fasciatus 14:20 IIB_Reichenbacher_02 (Cyprinodontiformes, killifishes) Evolution of trisopterine Gadidae with otoliths 14:40 IIB_Gaemers_03 Variability in the Santa Barbara Basin Fish Assemblage in the 15:00 IIB_Jones_04 Last Two Millennia Inferred from the Fossil Otolith Record Fish otolith assemblages on the Recent NE Atlantic sea 15:20 IIB_Lin_05 bottoms Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IIC 14:00 - 15:40 Seminar Room K. Limburg, A. Volpedo Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

Determining the foraging grounds of the Great Cormorant by 14:00 IIC_Oehm_01 otolith shape and chemistry The use of otolith microstructure for analyzing effects of 14:20 IIC_Landaeta_02 ectoparasites on nearshore fish larvae Functional diversity and behavioral responses to depth 14:40 IIC_Chung_03 gradients revealed by otolith morphology in deep-sea fishes Discriminating cryptic speciation using multivariate analysis of 15:00 IIC_Wakefield_04 otolith morphometrics Fish freight: using strontium isotope transect analysis to quantify the role of fishes in the transport of energy and 15:20 IIC_Crook_05 nutrients in rivers OTOCHUKI IIID & IVD 15:50 - 16:40 Auditorium Moderator B. Black Movements of the North Atlantic albacore (Thunnus alalunga) revealed by otolith δ18O, δ13C, Sr:Ca, Mg:Ca, Mn:Ca and 15:50 IIID_Fraile_01 Ba:Ca chronologies Stock identification of Sprattus sprattus within the Celtic Sea 15:55 IIID_Moore_02 Ecoregion using otolith shape and microstructure Residency and Habitat Use of Southern Flounder in North 16:00 IIID_Rulifson_03 Carolina Coastal Watersheds Discrimination of Sperata seenghala stocks inhabiting three rivers of the Gangetic river system using elemental 16:05 IIID_Khan_04 fingerprints on otoliths Connectivity and fish population structure: perspectives from 16:10 IIID_Reis-Santos_05 otolith geochemistry and genetic markers Distinguishing Blacktip Shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, Nursery Areas in the Northern Gulf of Mexico with Vertebral Chemical 16:15 IIID_Lewis_06 Signatures Natal Origin of Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, Striped Bass 16:20 IIID_Dobbs_07 Inferred from Otolith Chemistry Using Otolith Shape Analysis as a tool of stock discrimination 16:25 IIID_Şahin_08 of the anchovy subspecies in the Black Sea Provenance and migration patterns of European whitefish lavaretus (L.) s.l. in the Baltic Sea – combining 16:30 IIID_Rohtla_09 otolith geochemistry and gill raker counts Early life history of Terapon jarbua (Forsskål, 1775) using microstructures and Laser Ablation ICP-MS elemental 16:35 IVD_Lavergne_08 composition of otoliths Use of oxygen and carbon stable isotopes in otoliths to study 16:40 IVD_Moreira_15 fish movement and connectivity in Lipophrys pholis Theme and Workshop "Keeping earstones to the grindstones" 16:45 - 19:00 Poster Room Posters on display all POSTER SESSION AND WINE BAR week

Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

Wednesday, 22 October AGE VALIDATION WORKSHOP 9:00 - 17:45 Auditorium (Moderator) Title Time Reference number Presenter (Richard McBride) Opening remarks 09:00 Richard McBride Use of the stable oxygen isotope, 18O, in otoliths as an 09:05 Craig Kastelle WSAgeOral_ Kastelle_08 indicator of fish life history events and age validation Refined bomb radiocarbon dating of two iconic fishes of the 09:25 Allen Andrews WSAgeOral_ Andrews_13 Great Barrier Reef Advances in Ageing Techniques and Age Interpretation for U.S. 09:55 Owen Hamel WSAgeOral_ Hamel_10 West Coast Groundfish General discussion 10:25 Coffee Break 10:40 Validation of age determination from Otoliths for the Anchovy (Ole Thomas Albert) 11:00 WSAgeOral_ Uriarte_06 in the Bay of Biscay. Andres Uriarte Holistic approach on the age validation for the red mullet WSAgeOral_ (Mullus barbatus) in the Southern Adriatic Sea (Central 11:20 Pierluigi Carbonara Carbonara_15 Mediterranean) A question of winter growth: Interpretation of Quarter 4 Celtic 11:40 Imelda Hehir WSAgeOral_ Hehir_04 Sea whiting otoliths Can otolith weight be used as a trustworthy and quick Paraskevi Niki 12:00 WSAgeOral_ Lampri_09 predictor of age in Pagellus erythrinus (Pisces, Sparidae)? Lampri Use and nonuse of tests of symmetry in age validation studies 12:20 Richard McBride WSAgeOral_ McBride_03 General discussion 12:50 Lunch 13:00 Validation of annual zones in Greenland halibut otoliths from (Allen Andrews) 14:30 WSAgeOral_ Albert_16 recaptures of chemically marked fish Ole Thomas Albert Age validation of monkfish (Lophius americanus) 14:50 Crista Bank WSAgeOral_Bank_11 Age and growth validation of the common thresher shark 15:10 Natalie Spear WSAgeOral_Spear_02 (Alopias vulpinus) in the northeastern Pacific Ocean Validation of the first annual increment deposition in the WSAgeOral_ otoliths of European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus L.) in the 15:30 Naroa Aldanondo Aldanondo_05 Bay of Biscay Coffee Break 15:50 Validation of daily increments in the otoliths of Atlanto-Iberian (Allen Andrews) sardine larvae (Sardina pilchardus Walbaum, 1792) reared 16:20 WSAgeOral_ Ferreira_07 Susana Ferreira under different diets. Oral posters (10 min) 16:40 – 17:30 TBA General discussion and concluding remarks 17:30 Allen Andrews

Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

OTOLITH SHAPE ANALYSIS WORKSHOP 9:00 - 18:00 Seminar Room (Moderator) Title Time Reference number Presenter (Audrey Geffen) Introduction to otolith shape analysis; theory behind the practice 09:00 Audrey Geffen Lotte Worsøe WSShape Worsøe Herring otolith shape – a tool for gauging stock complexity? 09:10 Clausen Clausen_01 Disentangling and quantifying sources of otolith shape variation across multiple scales using a new hierarchal partitioning 09:30 Matthias Vignon WSShape_Vignon_04 approach Morphological analysis applied to the shape of the sagitta of 09:40 Veronica Rivera WSShape_ Rivera_02 Fundulus persimilis (Cyprinodontidae).

Morphometric analysis of the sagitta otoliths of Pterois volitans 09:45 Jacob Rubio WSShape_Rubio_03

Otolith growth and shape changes during ontogeny in Atlantic Persefoni WSShape_ 09:50 bluefin tuna Megalofonou Megalofonou_06 Discriminating stocks of common dentex (Dentex dentex) around Corsica Island (NW Mediterranean) using two otolith shape 09:55 Marie Baudouin WSShape_ Baudouin_07 classification methods Lotte Worsøe Image acquisition - code of best practice for obtaining high WSShape Worsøe 09:55 Clausen and quality images with unambiguous outlines Clausen_08 Antoni Lombarte Coffee Break 10:40 Image processing, outline generation and shape data extraction; (Deirdre Brophy) 11:00 WSShape_Brophy_09 interactive exercise Deirdre Brophy Lisa Anne shapeR: an R package to study otolith shape variation 12:10 WSShape_ Libungan_11 Libungan What next? Introduction to analysing and interpreting otolith 12:30 Deirdre Brophy shape variation Lunch 13:00 Assessment and avoidance of pitfalls by use of Fourier (Alf Harbitz) techniques in discrimination analysis of otolith contours from 14:00 WSShape_Harbitz_12 Alf Harbitz different stocks Statistical analysis of population assignment for fisheries Henrik management employing otolith characteristics; interactive 15:05 Mosegaard exercise Coffee Break 15:45 (CTD) Statistical analysis of population assignment for fisheries Henrik WSShape_ management employing otolith characteristics; interactive 16:05 Mosegaard Mosegaard_13 exercise Youssef El Otolith identification system based on image contour analys 16:30 WSShape_ ElHabouz__05 Habouz A conceptual modification of three Fourier techniques to represent 2D closed contours that requires only one frequency 16:40 Alf Harbitz WSShape_ Harbitz_14 to reproduce a pure ellipse Parameterization of 3D AFORO ototith surfaces 16:50 Pere Marti-Puig WSShape Marti-Puig_10 Operational viability of stock-separation using shape indices derived from the otolith morphometric outline. An example 17:00 James Mapp WSShape_Mapp_15 using sprat and herring Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

Affordable 3D scanning of small otoliths for improved shape 17:10 Andreas Zitek WSShape_ Zitek_16 analysis by photogrammetry techniques Morphometric analysis of the sagitta otoliths of Sciaenidae from 17:20 Kar-Hoe Loh WSShape_Loh_17 Malaysia Panel Discussion 17:30

Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

Thursday, 23 October Moderators 9:00 - MORNING PLENARY SESSION IIIA Auditorium C. Clemmesen, 13:10 N. Aldanondo IIIA_Thorrold_Key Keynote Theme III: Population indicators 09:00 Auditorium (B. Morales-Nin speaker presentation) Identifying the mechanisms shaping population structure in fish with 9:45 IIIA_Wright_01 dispersive life stages

After two centuries of fish sclerochronology: the hegemony of otolith studies 10:05 IIIA_Panfili_02

Herring year classes after 1904 - how have they affected growth of 10:25 IIIA_Folkvord_03 subsequent year classes? Poster Coffee grinder 10:45 Room Untangling inter-stock differences in otolith d18O signatures: insights from a 11:15 IIIA_Darnaude_04 decade of plaice archival tagging. Stable isotopes in otoliths: what have we learned so far? 11:35 IIIA_Huijbers_05 Time and plaice: decadal changes in North Sea plaice Pleuronectes platessa L. 11:55 IIIA_Hunter_06 observed through historical otolith and other legacy datasets Closing the life history loop on a fish species with embayment, coastal and 12:15 IIIA_Jenkins_07 oceanic life phases Lunch luminance 12:35 14:00 - Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IIIB Auditorium 15:40 P. Wright, K. Hüssy Combined use of otolith shape, parasites and genetic markers for stock identification of the common dentex (Dentex dentex) around Corsica Island 14:00 IIIB_Marengo_01 (NW Mediterranean). The Baltic cod: A case study for testing stock discrimination based on otolith 14:20 IIIB_Hüssy_02 shape analysis in a mixed stock fishery Otolith shape variation in blue fin tuna from different regions of the North 14:40 IIIB_Brophy_03 Atlantic: a possible marker of stock origin Analysis of phenotypic characteristics of otoliths - resolving stock structure 15:00 IIIB_Fowler_04 issues for snapper in South Australia.

Use of otolith quality flags to assess distributional dynamics in Baltic cod stock 15:20 IIIB_Stöera_05

14:00 - Seminar Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IIIC 15:40 Room C-H. Wang , P. Arechavala Ecological changes in and recovery of the Ayu population following the 14:00 IIIC_Kawakami_01 tsunami generated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake Out of sight, out of mind: what can otolith microstructure tell us about the elusive marine dispersive phase of the New Zealand whitebait Galaxias 14:20 IIIC_Egan_02 maculatus? Pelagic larval duration and growth of early life stages of a coral reef fish: 14:40 IIIC_Herrera-Reveles_03 variations in an upwelling South Caribbean area Interpopulation and individual variation in dispersal characteristics of juvenile 15:00 IIIC_Freshwater_04 Sockeye Salmon Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

Are larval reef fish travelling in packs? Using otoliths to evaluate evidence for 15:20 IIIC_Shima_05 shared dispersal histories. Poster Coffee core 15:40 Room 16:10 - Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IIIB Auditorium 17:30 E. Moksness , A.O. Thomas Stable isotope otolith fingerprint signatures: a mass marking technique for 16:10 IIIB_Warren-Myers_06 farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar Stable nitrogen isotopes in otoliths discriminate juvenile fish stocks in 16:30 IIIB_Lauchlan_07 estuaries affected by anthropogenic impacts Population Mixing between U.S. King Mackerel Stocks Estimated with Otolith 16:50 IIIB_Patterson_08 Chemical Signatures European flounder life history plasticity: paranormal activity or the helpful 17:10 IIIB_Morais_09 insights of otolith microchemistry? 16:10 - Seminar Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IIIC 17:30 Room M. Palmer, B. Morales Dispersal capacities of Allis Shad (Alosa alosa) under global change: insights of 16:10 IIIC_Martin_06 innovative otolith microchemistry analysis Investigating early stages dispersal using otolith chemistry: surprising 16:30 IIIC_Di Franco_07 relevance of the post-settlement phase in a temperate coastal fish. Assessing fish population connectivity: Combining otolith geochemistry and 16:50 IIIC_Tanner_08 biophysical models Estimating potential nursery sources for red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, populations in Atlantic Ocean waters of the United States from North Carolina 17:10 IIIC_Barnett_09 to Florida 17:45 - Moderator OTOCHUKI IIID & IVD Auditorium 19:05 R. Vasconcelos Are relationships between fish length and otolith radius enhanced by 17:45 IVD_Ashworth_01 accounting for correlated errors? Implications for back-calculation.

Variability of the otolith growth rate and age of young-of-the-year chub, 17:50 IVD_Morat_02 Squalius cephalus, from a hydraulic reach in the Rhône River.

Investigations into the age determination and validation of patagonian 17:55 IVD_Etherton_03 toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) from British Overseas Territories

Age, growth and distribution of the Antarctic fish Pseudochaenichthys georgianus 18:00 IVD_Traczyk_04 NORMAN, 1939 in the Atlantic sector of Antarctic

Realizing connectivity- the influence of early life history on the dynamics of marine 18:05 IIID_Swearer_05 metapopulations

Using the strontium isotope composition of otoliths from Bering (Coregonus 18:15 IIID_Padilla_06 laurettae) to determine commercial stock composition in Alaska

Morphometric analysis of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) otoliths in the western 18:20 IIID_Batista da Silva_07 equatorial Atlantic Ocean Competency phase affects patterns of fish early life traits 18:25 IVD_Calò_08

Residence depth of the deep-sea fish revealed by stable isotope file 18:30 IVD_Shiao_09 Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

Use of otolith macrostructure for the identification of yearly birthday groups of 18:35 IIID_Carbonara_10 European hake (Merluccius merluccius)

Outline variability of the saggita otoliths of the Patagonian grenadier (Macruronus 18:40 IIID_Cubillos_11 magellanicus) in Chilean Patagonian waters

Fishery-dependent sampling may bias growth estimates 18:45 IIID_Morro_12 Life history Ba:Ca profiles reveal plasticity in the early life of the diadromous fish 18:50 IIID_Rolls_13 (Centropomus undecimalis) Daily age estimation of Japanese eel preleptocehali collected in the spawning area 19:00 IIID_Mochioka_15

Friday, 24th October Moderators 9:00 - MORNING PLENARY SESSION IVA Auditorium B. Morales-Nin, 12:35 G. Petursdottir IVA_Grønkjær_Key Keynote Theme IV: Individual indicators 9:00 Auditorium (E. Moksness speaker presentation) A multi-proxy approach for estimating estuarine immigration using otolith 9:45 IVA_Mohan_01 elements and tissue-specific stable isotopes Image-enhanced burns, bomb radiocarbon and microsatellite DNA improve the accuracy and precision of otolith-based age determinations for redfish 10:05 IVA_Campana_02 (Sebastes spp) Does the elemental composition of marine fish blood and otoliths reflect 10:25 IVA_Sturrock_03 ambient conditions or physiology? Insights from the lab and the ocean Poster Coffee Antirostrum 10:45 Room Maternal contribution process of Trace Elements in Striped Bass Otoliths 11:15 IVA_Elking_04 During Early Ontogeny Using otoliths to link population abundance decline to modifications in individual trophic niche and growth in a tropical fish species (Bairdiella 11:35 IVA_Sirot_05 chrysoura L., Sciaenidae) Less-than-daily growth increment formation in fish larvae otoliths: Exploring mechanisms with a bioenergetic modelling approach applied to Atlanto- 11:55 IVA_Pecquerie_06 Iberian sardine (Sardina pilchardus) Chemical signatures in scales reveal estuarine habitat use and trophic shifts of 12:15 IVA_Seeley_07 a highly migratory elopiform Lunch zone 12:35 14:00 - Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IVB Auditorium 15:40 A .Fowler, C. Myrilineou

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Dietary transmission of isotope spikes to otoliths, fin rays and scales: 14:20 IVB_Walther_02 experimental validation and concentration-dependent mixing models

Sr isotope pattern deconvolution of LA-MC ICP-MS data to detect individual- 14:40 IVB_Irrgeher_03 specific transgenerational marks in freshwater fish otoliths Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

Growth of stocked, marked eels compared to natural recruits in different 15:00 IVB_Wickström_04 habitats—a “common garden” approach Effects of temperature and ration on the otolith to body size relationship in 15:20 IVB_Stormer_05 juvenile Chinook salmon: A test of the direct proportionality assumption. 14:00 - Seminar Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IVC 15:40 Room S. Thorrold, A. Darnaude Natal signatures in the calcified structures of the giant Australian cuttlefish: 14:00 IVC_Woodcock_01 comparing statoliths and cuttlebones How long is the lifespan of European hake in the Mediterranean? Validating 14:20 IVC_Vitale_02 longevity Combining otolith microchemistry and microstructure analyses to infer transpacific migration patterns in juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus 14:40 IVC_Baumann_03 orientalis) Temperature history estimated with oxygen isotopes in otoliths of the Japanese common conger Conger myriaster collected from the continental 15:00 IVC_Kawazu_04 shelf in the East China Sea. Investigating diet and movement of cod (Gadus morhua) off Newfoundland 15:20 IVC_Piercey_05 using δ13C of muscle and otolith amino acids Poster Coffee Postrostrum 15:40 Room Moderators 15:40 - AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IVB Auditorium L. Worsøe Clausen, 17:20 D. Brophy Assessment of otolith morphometrics as proxies for age in F-based 16:10 IVB_Williams_06 assessments of tropical deepwater fisheries Does diet influence otolith shape? 16:30 IVB_Mille_07 Otolith shape differences related to different migrating behavior in Icelandic 16:40 IVB_Bardarson_08 cod tagged by Data Storage Tags Otolith shape fluctuating asymmetry: A misconception of its biological 17:00 IVB_Díaz-Gil_09 relevance? 15:40 - Seminar Moderators AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION IVC 17:20 Room A. Folkvord, C. G. Piñeiro Otolith examination in the seahorse Hippocampus guttulatus 16:10 IVC_Valladares_06 New open access software designed for the recognition of daily 16:30 IVC_Nava_07 microstructures used in ageing sympatric hake species Disentangling the effects of inherent otolith growth and model-simulated 16:40 IVC_Schismenou_08 ecosystem parameters on the daily growth rate of young anchovies Non-linear back-calculation in juvenile Baltic sprat (Sprattus sprattus): Insights 17:00 IVC_Günther_09 into a recruitment-critical life stage 17:30 - Moderator OTOCHUKI IVD Auditorium 18:45 P. Gaemers A New Era of Ageing Spiny Dogfish (Squalus suckleyi) in the North Pacific 17:30 IVD_Tribuzio_01 Ocean Age structure of the goby Parapocryptes serperaster in the Mekong Delta, 17:35 IVD_Dinh_02 Vietnam, based on length-frequency and otolith analyses Programme for 5th International Otolith Symposium

Changes in size, shape and appearance of juvenile Northeast Arctic cod 17:40 IVD_Irgens_03 (Gadus morhua) otoliths during settling Post-settlement growth of hake from the Norwegian coast based on otolith 17:45 IVD_Staby_05 microstructure analysis: Evidence for counter gradient variation? Colonization, hatch-dates, and growth rates of juvenile Hyporhamphus picarti 17:50 IVD_Jaafour_06 (, Hemiramphidae), in the Nador lagoon (NE Morocco)

Determination of strontium chemical environment and elemental mapping of 17:55 IVD_Dufour_07 otoliths by synchrotron radiation techniques

Past and recent growth patterns in two species with contrasting demographic 18:00 IVD_Sirot_08 responses to environmental changes in a tropical lagoon The validation of otolith traceability tools within a robust, reproducible and 18:05 IIID_Geffen_10 transferable forensic framework Age and growth of larval Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, from the 18:10 IVD_Malca_09 Gulf of Mexico Shape analysis of sagittal otolith of Haemulon plumierii caught in Pernambuco 18:15 IVD_Vasconcelos Filho_10 State (Brazil): ontogenetic and population perspectives Larval Otolith Formation in Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) 18:20 IVD_Elking_11 Using otolith strontium isotopes to reconstruct life history portfolios within 18:25 IVD_Sturrock_12 salmon populations: When do different phenotypes contribute? Migration patterns and population structure of two small pelagic species from otolith microchemistry: European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and 18:30 IIID_Gatti_13 Sardine (Sardina pilchardus) of the Bay of Biscay Contribution of otolith microchemistry to reveal the evolutionary origin of catadromous migration in anguilliformes fishes: an example of tropical moray 18:35 IVD_Kuroki_14 eel Age estimation and otolith analysis of Fistularia commersonii Rüppell, 1838 18:40 IVD_Vitale_16 (Syngnathiformes – Fistularia) in the central Mediterranean Sea Otolith microchemistry: A useful tool for age validation? 18:45 IVD_Hüssy_17 Can we derive a deep water δ14C curve to aid age validation of NZ deep sea 18:50 IVD_Neil_18 fish species? SYMPOSIUM CLOSING SESSION 19:15 Auditorium Casal Demons - "A little asymmetry goes a long way" 19:30 Grounds Hotel GALA DINNER: Hard Rock Story's happily ever-afters 20:00 Palmira Beach